Madame Diamette drives a hard bargain in the Mercado Fronterizo, where she buys coconuts, bananas, and beans to be sold back in Cayes Jacmel, Haiti.

At the end of trading in Marcado Fronterizo, local Dominican women cook for the Haitian trading counterparts.

Madame Diamette drives a hard bargain in the Mercado Fronterizo, where she buys coconuts, bananas, and beans to be sold back in Cayes Jacmel, Haiti.

Bananas in the market.

Madame Saras buying Dominican bananas for sale in Haiti.

Many local Haitian men are employed to not only carry many tons of produce back and forth from the boats, but also lift the Madame Saras across the water.

Madam Diamette checks her phone on the beach in Anse-A-Pitres in southern Haiti. After spending all day just inside the Mercado Fronterizo. Madam Diamette contacts her buyers near Cayes Jacmel to arrange her coconut deal for the next day.

A lone cargo boat moored in the moonlight off of Marigot, Haiti.

Madame Diamette waits on the beach to be carried into a wooden cargo boat for her overnight journey from Marigo t to Anse-a-Pitres in the Dominican Republic border,